What’s Wrong With Nepotism?
The toughest and most important part of building a business is finding great employees. When you take the regular paths — help-wanted ads and interviews — you end up hiring a lot of disappointing people. I recently spent weeks trying to find someone to fill a part-time position. After a…
READ MOREGood Manners: Nothing Is More Important
“We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.” – Judith Martin (“Miss Manners”) I was complaining — not too long ago — about the bad manners of a friend of one of my sons. I was trying to…
READ MOREAdvice Needed … Advice Given
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.” – Milton R. Sapirstein (Paradoxes of Everyday Life, 1955) Dear Early to Rise, In the supermarket line today, my 10-year-old-son Aidan picks up two Snickers bars. I say, “I’m not…
READ MOREPromise #5 For The New Year: To Develop The Personal “You”
The social “you” is always under scrutiny. Your employer and clients evaluate your work. Your spouse and children match your behavior to their expectations. Under such circumstances, the achievement-oriented person naturally improves because he feels the censure of his critics and strives for the approval of those he cares to…
READ MOREHere’s Another Contrary Thought — About Parenting
“The energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.” – Henry Ward Beecher (Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887) If, as I asserted in yesterday’s message, it’s a mistake to think that government should give handouts to businesses, maybe it’s…
READ MOREHey…I’m Just Saying…
There was a skit on Seinfeld — I don’t know if I actually saw it or just heard about it — but it was about what you could say to someone so long as you appended your statement with, “Hey, I’m just saying.” “Don’t you think those pants make your…
READ MOREScheduling Stress Breaks
If you work as hard as I do, you will be forever on the verge of a nervous breakdown unless you do something about it. One of the best things you can do is schedule at least two (and preferably three or four) stress breaks every working day. A stress…
READ MOREDon’t Betray Your Partner/Boss
What do you do when someone who works for you walks into your office and says, “I have something I want to tell you, but you must promise you wont tell your partner/boss?” If you agree to listen, you have made a serious mistake. You have betrayed the fundamental relationship…
READ MOREHow To Make Your Children and Employees Expect More But Produce Less
In response to Message #188 (“You Want to Be a Success? Dont Underestimate the Importance of Education”), ES wrote, “Your ETR is EXACTLY what I’ve been saying for years. Unfortunately, I was one of the people who helped create this unfortunate mess — I was a teacher in the early…
READ MOREPaul Harvey Writes…
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” – Ralph Waldo EmersonWe tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat-loaf…
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Why I Don’t Gamble – And Why You Shouldn’t Either
Why I don’t gamble when I visit Las Vegas, and instead enjoy money and success by placing smart investments that gain me wealth every day.
READ MORERetiring In Paradise
On Friday I got carried away with selling you beachfront property in Nicaragua. I meant to introduce my Big Idea to solve your Big Retirement Problem (i.e., you cant have one). The Big Idea that will solve your Big Problem with retirement . The idea of retirement is a recent one.…
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